Passover Seder

Passover and Easter are, of course, profoundly important religious occasions for Jews and Christians, respectively. Efforts to secularize them have generally been met by the faithful with disapprobation. But this year, could we at least acknowledge some meteorologically oriented holiday joy? At Passover, Jews commemorate God's freeing the ancient Israelites from slavery in Egypt. To Christians, Easter celebrates Jesus Christ's freeing humankind from the finality of death. Both holidays, in that sense, involve liberation. And after this past winter, we could all use some liberation from cold, snow, ice and sleet. February was the coldest month ever in Connecticut. This...

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Passover and Easter are, of course, profoundly important religious occasions for Jews and Christians, respectively. Efforts to secularize them have generally been met by the faithful with disapprobation.
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